Polkinghorne Village Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. — John Polkinghorne

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another! — Takeshi Kitano

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do. — Bo Bennett

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else. — Joe Abercrombie

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin

When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion. — Renzo Rosso

You just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore. — Randy Pausch

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous. — Marion Nestle

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. — Stephen R. Covey

A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth.
He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them.
But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking. ("Hunger") — Charles Beaumont

Sometimes a man must stand for what is right and sometimes you must simply walk away and suffer the babblings of weak-minded fools or try to change their minds. It's like teachin' a pig to sing. It is a waste of your time and it annoys the pig. — John William Tuohy

The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward. — Ben Carson